I just started this book, but I am liking it so far. Reading Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska written by Michael D'Orso right after reading Shine by Lauren Myracle, I have found a lot of similarities despite different locations.
D'Orso takes the reader to a small town called Fort Yukon in Alaska. He describes how the people of Fort Yukon used to be proud of their history and worked hard for a living and did not waste a thing. Though, now, the natives are not so proud, or if they are, they don't show it and have sunken into addiction, laziness, dropping out of school and living off of pre-packaged food from the AC. I imagine the "good part" is yet to come but thus far the book does a beautiful job at describing the people and the land, and juxtaposing beauty and ugliness.
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